10x engineers take long naps

Re:10x engineers take long naps by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:35PM (#14548394)

I've always heard the "too smart to know I'm smart" as manifesting differently. Getting better improves two distinct sub-skills: excution, and perception of performance flaws. Dunning-Krugar effect, to me, just says that flaw perception grows faster with skill than execution does.

At a concrete level, I remember watching a lecture from a Jazz instructor by the name of Hal Galper, who said something like "Not liking the music you're playing is a sign that you're getting better, since it means you can now hear the mistakes you've always been making". It's really stuck with me through learning other creative pursuits (dance, in particular).

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Re:10x engineers take long naps by thehardsphere on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:57PM (#14548579)

I have heard someone else say a similar thing about writing, and I believe it. They described it as "having or developing taste", and were encouraging people to keep writing through those feelings because as they got better it would help them know what to write and what not to write.

Dunno if I've seen it in software development, but I also don't have any real objective estimation of how good I am at software development.

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